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...which served to heighten the display of Dies news in the U. S. press, whose front pages already had demonstrated that whatever political sophisticates might think of the inquiry, the voters of the U. S. were reading about it. Unabashed, Mr. Dies promptly made more news by retorting that the President had not read the record and didn't know what he was talking about. Bellowed the chairman: "I shall continue to do my duty, undeterred and unafraid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONGRESS: Dies and Duty | 11/7/1938 | See Source »

...plan, they should certainly strive in other ways to throw out more lines to the mainland which is the general public. By scattering intellectual seeds abroad, they can make a valuable contribution to the life of the nation. And, to argue on a lower plane, they may also heighten their own towers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BUSINESS CONTACTS | 11/1/1938 | See Source »

...plane flies high, above bad weather. Overweather flight has been one of commercial aviation's greatest developments in the last decade, and Douglas planes have taken the lead in making a high curve the shortest traveling distance between any two points in the U. S. DC-4 will heighten the curve, shorten the distance. Without pressurized cabins, planes now fly as high as 14,000 feet; with them, passengers will feel no discomfort at DC-4s service ceiling, 22,900 feet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: DC-4 | 5/23/1938 | See Source »

...with tiny windows covered with lattice grille-work in strong steel. There was something bout that window at the end of the corridor of the library that reminded him of that old eighteenth century county jail. The steel book-racks, the dull concrete floors of the corridors served to heighten the impression that he was in prison, tortured by the Gods and Harvard college for a number of weeks, all for the cause of a thesis...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 2/28/1938 | See Source »

...THEM DIE-Shirley Millard- Harcourt, Brace ($1.50). Spare, simply written diary of a young, red-haired U. S. volunteer nurse in French hospitals near the front lines of 1918, in which romantic interludes heighten rather than ease a grisly atmosphere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fiction: Recent Books: Nov. 16, 1936 | 11/16/1936 | See Source »

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